Do you still get the "attempt to free unreferenced scalar" message if you comment out the line that says $SIG{CHLD} = \&REAPER;?

If so, you have probably found a real bug in Perl and you should prepare a bug report. Try trimming the code down some more by getting rid of some of the more peripheral subroutines. Use the perlbug program on your system to report the error, including the entire source code of the smallest version of the program you can find that still demonstrates the problem.

If commenting out the $SIG{CHLD} line makes the problem magically go away, then you've still found a bug in Perl, but it's a well-known bug that people don't know how to fix. In this case you can still solve your problem by avoiding signal handlers and using waitpid to reap the children. If you post about it I will help you fix the program to do this.

Thanks for taking so much time to investigate this.

In reply to Re: Attempt to free unreferenced scalar... by Dominus
in thread Attempt to free unreferenced scalar... by Daniellek

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